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Tihelka, D. and Matoušek, J. and Kala, J. : Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis . Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 10th International Conference TSD 2007, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4629, p. 508-515, Springer-Verlag Berlin Hiedelberg 2007, 2007.

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the relationships between target and concatenation costs and the quality (with focus on naturalness) of generated speech. Several synthetic phrases were examined by listeners with the aim to find unnatural artefacts in them, and the mutual relation between the artefacts and the behaviour of features used in given unit selection algorithm was examined.

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Title: Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Author: Tihelka, D. ; Matoušek, J. ; Kala, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 1 Jan 2007
Year: 2007
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 10th International Conference TSD 2007
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Číslo vydání: 4629
Page: 508 - 515
ISBN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Hiedelberg 2007
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Keywords

speech synthesis, unit selection, quality evaluation, unnatural artefacts, target, concatenation cost

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{TihelkaD_2007_QualityDeterioration,
 author = {Tihelka, D. and Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Kala, J.},
 title = {Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis},
 year = {2007},
 publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Hiedelberg 2007},
 volume = {4629},
 pages = {508-515},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 10th International Conference TSD 2007},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ISBN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/TihelkaD_2007_QualityDeterioration},
}